"If there is anything that can compare to this it would have to be Trudeaumania, which I am not really old enough to remember (I'm now old enough that I look rather fondly on anything I'm not old enough to remember) but which — as I've later learned — involved an attractive young politician who by dint of birth bridged the two solitudes of his country but also had a slightly mysterious and more radical past that he seemed willing to shelve away for the sake of winning power — power that, as he campaigned for office, the candidate somewhat vaguely promised to exercise in a way that would be excitingly different than it had ever been exercised before by the old boring men who had occupied the office since time immemorial, and (in particular) in keeping with the youthful idealism of the upcoming generation. What this meant nobody knew, but it made no difference."

This is astonishing material â€“ and itâ€™s all demonstrably true â€“ based on personal papers of Trudeau that the authors were allowed to access after his death.What they have found has astounded and distressed them, but they both agree that the truth must be published